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In trying to set up my audio system with the Toshiba HD-A1, I am using the 5.1 analog outs along with the normal digital connections. Not being too familiar with the analog connections, I was suprised to see how much higher I had to turn up my receiver volume to get the same boom in the room from, say, bitstream DTS . About 20%. I know this can vary from disc to disc and receiver to receiver, but it kind of makes you wonder if you have the analog connection set correctly.

Is this "cooler" output normal with multi-channel analog? You guys using SACD must run into this all the time.

P.S. Before I posted this, I looked around the net a long time trying to find out if this specific thing was being talked about much, and couldn't find any cases to speak of. Either I am a rare case problem child, or this info is so well known and I just happened to miss it.

How odd you didn't find that... I think it may even be here on the site buried in some thread...

The audio levels were encoded too low as I recall. Indeed, some of the newer titles are louder but you will have to find a new setting on your AV receiver because they are no longer compressed either. Kind of like DTS levels versus DD levels but in this case it is SD versus HD levels...